Africa: Continent's renaissance depends on environment

Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has said. From the northernmost point of Morocco to the tip of South Africa, the continent is only realizing a fraction of the economic potential tied up in its forests, lakes, mines and coastlines, UNEP said in a report titled “Our Environment, Our Wealth."